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Tom Boyd could return to the Western Bulldogs AFL side this weekend if his teammates decide hes spent enough time on the outer. Nick Kwiatkoski Jersey .Boyd has been persona non grata at Whitten Oval after a pub stoush with fellow Bulldog Zaine Cordy led to an internal ban.Any decision to reinstate the mega-money 20-year-old recruit rests with the Bulldogs playing group and coach Luke Beveridge says that could be made in a regular Tuesday night meeting.Were almost ready to put it behind us, he said.Well work through it tonight.Both him and Zaine have been quite contrite. Theyve paid their penance.But its got to be up to everyone that thats enough. Im not the one playing with Tommy.Its either this week or next I would have thought.Beveridge said he was eager to bring back another tall for Saturdays match with Gold Coast, but should Boyd get the all-clear, he still needs to jump the hurdle of match committee.Boyd starred with four goals in the VFL two weeks ago but wasnt as prominent last weekend in Footscrays reserves victory over Richmond.One player that wont be travelling north to Cairns for the match is Tom Liberatore.The tough midfielder wore an opponents knee to his ribs in their 10-point AFL win over Richmond.He was cleared of serious injury but has lung bruising and a cracked rib according to Beveridge.Its more the flight than anything, Beveridge said.Its the altitude and the pressure that builds up in the plane. The doctors are a bit worried about it. We wont take him.He probably would have played this week if we were down here. (The rest) wont do him any harm.Whether or not Boyd makes his return this AFL weekend or not, the Bulldogs look to have escaped a challenging fortnight with their noses clean.Lin Jongs tour of Collingwood and the Boyd-Cordy biff brought a focus on non-football matters - but the Dogs kept winning.A four-point victory at the SCG was followed by their late rally to beat the Tigers, making it five wins in six for Beveridges premiership-chasers.The second-year coach said he was encouraged by their on-field response.We feel like were quite unified but that tests you, he said.Its been great to have some good performances and we march on. Mitchell Trubisky Jersey . -- Jakob Silfverberg is making himself right at home with the Anaheim Ducks, scoring four goals in his first four games. 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Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself. You just have to. Theres no way around it. Youve got to believe in yourself. No matter how things are stacked against you, you just have to, every time.Williams never lost that belief, the self-confidence that she still could compete at the highest level, the certainty that it made no sense to give up, to retire from the tour.The good part is, I always felt like I had the game. This is always a plus, when you know you have the game, said Williams, who owns seven Grand Slam titles, including five at the All England Club, but none since 2008. So you just have to keep working until things fall into place.At age 36, they have.On Friday at Wimbledon, Williams will meet No. 4-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany for a berth in the final. Kerber has won three of their previous five matchups.The American is the oldest woman to participate in a major semifinal since Martina Navratilova did it at Wimbledon in 1994 at age 37.Its nice to see, because she puts in the work, said David Witt, Williams coach. She hasnt been back, but not because of her play. Any given tournament, shes capable of beating anybody in the tournament. Its just a matter of winning six, seven matches in a row and keeping your level of play at a high level.Someone who knows all about that is Williams younger sister, No. 1-seeded Serena, who faces 50th-ranked Elena Vesnina in Fridays other semifinal. If VVesnina -- who has never so much as taken a set off Serena in five previous meetings -- were to pull off the upset, she would be the first unseeded woman to reach the Wimbledon final in the Open era, which began in 1968. Black Bears Jerseys. The 29-year-old Russian had never been past the fourth round at a major before this week.Serena, meanwhile, is bidding for her seventh Wimbledon championship and, of even more significance, her 22nd Grand Slam trophy overall, which would equal Steffi Graf for the most in the Open era (Margaret Court holds the all-time mark of 24).Serena has come close to drawing even with Graf before: At the U.S. Open last September, she lost to Roberta Vinci in the semifinals while aiming for a calendar-year Grand Slam; at the Australian Open in January, she lost to Kerber in the final; at the French Open in June, she lost to Garbine Muguruza in the final.Way back in 1999, the Williams sisters both reached the semifinals of the U.S. Open. Now here they are, almost 17 full years later, both in the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the 11th time. On all 10 previous occasions, one or the other took home the trophy.If both win Thursday, they would play each other on Saturday in what would be the siblings ninth meeting in a Grand Slam final and fifth at Wimbledon.For Serena, it would mean shes participated in the last three major title matches, seven of the past eight.For Venus, it would be her first Grand Slam final since 2009, when she lost at Wimbledon to -- guess who? -- Serena.With everything shes been through, I think its built a ton of character in her, Serena said, and in me, just by being around her.---Follow Howard Fendrich on Twitter at http://twitter.com/HowardFendrichCheap NFL JerseysCheap NFL Jerseys ChinaCheap Jerseys From ChinaCheap NFL Jerseys AuthenticWholesale Jerseys ChinaCheap NFL Jerseys ChinaNFL Cheap Jerseys ' ' '